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The man at the center of what might have been the last Nazi war crimes trial is dead. German officials say John Demjanjuk, 91, died today in a nursing home, reports the Telegraph. Demjanjuk was a retired Ohio auto worker who was stripped of his US citizenship and convicted in Germany of serving as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor concentration camp in Poland, notes AP. The Ukraine native was released to the nursing home after the trial and was awaiting appeal.

The man was 91, was an AMERICAN. LETS BE REAL ABOUT THIS, HE WAS IN war,YOU DO WHAT YOUR TOLD ,and he did. crimes against humanity? Then that would be evry war. I am very proud of him may he rest in peace . if i was him i wouldnt want to buried here ,only in GERMANY.

Spartacus-64

Mar 18, 2012 9:32 PM CDT

My heart goes out to his family...May he rest in peace now..And may the AMERICAN Goverment feel a shame for sending a respected working person to false charges to die with out his family around. Yet let this be a listen to all how are Goverment really works.

jonnynonos77

Mar 18, 2012 4:52 PM CDT

He was conscripted off his farm in the Ukraine to join the Reds; when he was captured by the Germans he was given a choice to either be a capo at a prison camp, the true nature of which he would almost certainly have had absolutely no idea of, or face certain death--the mortality rate for Russian prisoners in German camps was astounding, up to 90 percent. When given this choice he was already in all likelihood half starved to death. The Germans prosecuted him because it helps alleviate their national guilt to drag people from other countries into their horrific crimes against humanity. It was a political move and nothing else. It's always better to be able to say "we" were bad than "I" was bad. In any case, he is about the 10 millionth person down the list of people from that era who should be prosecuted for war crimes.